24 Treehouses of Horror... 24 years of parodies. Every year we wait for this... how can i call them? masterpieces of black comedy? This year, the hype was great, specially after YouTube shared the awesome intro. Everyone talks about the intro. Yes, its great, yes in HD is mind-blowing. Yes...
But the rest? The first segment is kinda lovely: a parody of Dr. Seuss works, funny, but not that memorable, the narration is outstanding, but the imagery is pretty dull... The second segment stands as one of the worst ToH segments by far. Do you remember that last two minutes of Treehouse of Horror II? That gag was converted to a full segment... Why? It was funny 22 years ago, but now is almost irritating. We had a lot of horror/science fiction movies every year,,,and the writers only came to this?
The third segment, while pretty interesting at first (it was inspired by cult classic Freaks), its, once again, Moe taking revenge/satisfaction on Homer, because his love/desire/relation with Marge. We had that last year...we had that in ToH XX... Why again? We have hundreds of characters. I'm not saying that they have to make a segment with Üter as the main character, but, they could experiment...why not? (Everyone remembers Üter...right?)
To think abut too: since the ToH XIV, only one person writes the segments, when before that, you had THREE writers, one per segment. I think, part of the life/soul of this episodes it's to experiment with alternate jokes, situations that are bizarre enough to not be included in the "normal" episodes. So, bring ALL your writing talented people to the game, DON'T put just one person to think about the ideas,,, or the next year we will have "Dial W for Werewolves" or "The Kingdom of Crystal Do'h"...or worse: "The Raven"... C'Mon Simpsons writers: this is your chance to make the Halloween specials shine again... don't waste it....
But the rest? The first segment is kinda lovely: a parody of Dr. Seuss works, funny, but not that memorable, the narration is outstanding, but the imagery is pretty dull... The second segment stands as one of the worst ToH segments by far. Do you remember that last two minutes of Treehouse of Horror II? That gag was converted to a full segment... Why? It was funny 22 years ago, but now is almost irritating. We had a lot of horror/science fiction movies every year,,,and the writers only came to this?
The third segment, while pretty interesting at first (it was inspired by cult classic Freaks), its, once again, Moe taking revenge/satisfaction on Homer, because his love/desire/relation with Marge. We had that last year...we had that in ToH XX... Why again? We have hundreds of characters. I'm not saying that they have to make a segment with Üter as the main character, but, they could experiment...why not? (Everyone remembers Üter...right?)
To think abut too: since the ToH XIV, only one person writes the segments, when before that, you had THREE writers, one per segment. I think, part of the life/soul of this episodes it's to experiment with alternate jokes, situations that are bizarre enough to not be included in the "normal" episodes. So, bring ALL your writing talented people to the game, DON'T put just one person to think about the ideas,,, or the next year we will have "Dial W for Werewolves" or "The Kingdom of Crystal Do'h"...or worse: "The Raven"... C'Mon Simpsons writers: this is your chance to make the Halloween specials shine again... don't waste it....